The court of appeal in Canada's most populous province ordered a new hearing on Thursday in a youth-led lawsuit claiming Ontario's climate plan violates young people's rights.

A group of young people argue Ontario's weakened emission target is a violation of their Charter rights. On Thursday, the Appeal Court of Ontario declined to rule on that question, but said lower courts shouldn't have dismissed the case,

A lower bench must now consider whether Ontario’s scaled back emissions reductions goals violate national law.

Ontario's top court breathed new life into a Charter challenge of the provincial government's emissions target on Thursday, a decision heralded as a major victory for the group of young people who brought the case and others looking to hold governments to account on climate change.

Province’s Court of Appeal heard arguments earlier this year brought by seven young people who say Ontario’s weakened emissions target is a violation of their constitutional rights